Category: Education

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, center, applauds on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives after the passage of the Family Empowerment Scholarship program. “They approved the death sentence for public education in Florida,” cried the Tampa Bay Times…

The first class to graduate from Denver School of Science and Technology celebrates that every student gained admission to college. Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using what’s known as a “portfolio…

In his 2008 blockbuster, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell makes the case that a person’s age relative to his or her cohort is a key predictor of success. That is, the older you are in relation to your peers, the more likely…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced an ambitious plan earlier this week that would cancel most outstanding student debt held by households making up to $250,000. Our analysis of federal data shows that this plan is likely to disproportionately benefit middle-…

In most of the U.S., the process for assigning children to public schools is straightforward: take a student’s home address, determine which school serves that address, and assign the student accordingly. However, states and cities are increasingly providing families with…

It’s not easy to surprise demographers, given the long timelines with which they work. But back in 2007, when the number of babies born in the United States hit the all-time high of 4.32 million, topping even the baby boom…

Licensed under Creative Commons On the campaign trail, President Trump spoke of a $20 billion federal program to support school choice, and there is every indication that the Trump administration will try to pursue this idea. Would expansive federal…

Last week, West Virginia teachers returned to their classrooms, ending a nine-day strike that closed every school in the state’s 55 counties. Teachers and other school workers went back to work after they had secured a 5 percent pay raise…

Income inequality has soared in the United States over the past half century. Has educational inequality increased alongside, in lockstep? Of course, say public intellectuals from across the political spectrum. As Richard Rothstein of the liberal Economic Policy Institute puts…

For nearly 50 years student achievement gap fails to close Harvard-Stanford study finds opportunity gap between advantaged and disadvantaged students equivalent to three to four years of learning March 11, 2019—Differences in the performance on math, reading, and science tests…